The first table below looks at the demand for SNMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SNMP over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the East of England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Rank 102 122 104
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -18
Contract jobs citing SNMP 14 9 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.643% 0.302% 0.995%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.608% 1.695% 6.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
Average daily rate £286 £290 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.29% -32.94%
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
Average hourly rate £48.25 £52.50 £33.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.09% +55.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.65 £41.25 £32.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.85 £56.50 £34.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £52.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-60.95% +52.17%
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
388 531 428
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.82% 17.81% 16.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 170 129
Average daily rate £325 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £200 £187
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 51 84
Average hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.66% +9.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £52.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
SNMP
England

SNMP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SNMP across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

East of England SNMP Jobs Demand Trend

SNMP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SNMP across the East of England region.

East of England SNMP Daily Rate Trend

SNMP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SNMP across the East of England region.

East of England SNMP Hourly Rate Trend

SNMP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SNMP within the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridgeshire +16 10 £298 +2.58%
Hertfordshire +13 3 - -
Suffolk - 1 £250 -
SNMP
England

SNMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing SNMP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SNMP.

1 11 (57.89%) VLAN
2 8 (42.11%) Python
2 8 (42.11%) Internet
3 7 (36.84%) Nagios
3 7 (36.84%) OSPF
3 7 (36.84%) IPsec
3 7 (36.84%) Cisco
3 7 (36.84%) HSRP
4 6 (31.58%) Shell Script
4 6 (31.58%) C#
5 5 (26.32%) UNIX
5 5 (26.32%) VPN
5 5 (26.32%) LAN
5 5 (26.32%) VoIP
5 5 (26.32%) WAN
5 5 (26.32%) Cryptography
5 5 (26.32%) PCI DSS
5 5 (26.32%) WhatsUp Gold
5 5 (26.32%) Cacti
5 5 (26.32%) Cisco CUCM
6 4 (21.05%) Embedded Software Development
6 4 (21.05%) Validation
6 4 (21.05%) Windows
6 4 (21.05%) Linux
7 3 (15.79%) E-Commerce
7 3 (15.79%) System Testing
7 3 (15.79%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (15.79%) Banking
8 2 (10.53%) Subversion
8 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking

SNMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing SNMP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SNMP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (10.53%) Memcached
1 2 (10.53%) Gearman
1 2 (10.53%) CSS
2 1 (5.263%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Apache
2 1 (5.263%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.263%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) VLAN
2 8 (42.11%) Internet
3 7 (36.84%) OSPF
3 7 (36.84%) IPsec
3 7 (36.84%) HSRP
4 5 (26.32%) VPN
4 5 (26.32%) LAN
4 5 (26.32%) VoIP
4 5 (26.32%) WAN
5 3 (15.79%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (10.53%) Cisco PIX
6 2 (10.53%) FWSM
6 2 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (10.53%) NetScreen
6 2 (10.53%) BGP
6 2 (10.53%) VRRP
6 2 (10.53%) Firewall
6 2 (10.53%) Wireless
6 2 (10.53%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.263%) MySQL
1 1 (5.263%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Subversion
General
1 3 (15.79%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.263%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Test Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Integration Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Software Integration Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Test and Integration Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Tester
3 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Support Specialist
4 1 (5.263%) Administrator
4 1 (5.263%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cryptography
2 2 (10.53%) Device Driver
3 1 (5.263%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.263%) N-Tier
3 1 (5.263%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) UNIX
2 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
3 2 (10.53%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Embedded Software Development
1 4 (21.05%) Validation
2 3 (15.79%) E-Commerce
2 3 (15.79%) System Testing
3 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
3 2 (10.53%) Network Management
3 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.263%) ITIL
4 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.263%) Project Management
4 1 (5.263%) Software Testing
4 1 (5.263%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) Shell Script
2 6 (31.58%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) Bash shell
3 2 (10.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) CCNP
1 2 (10.53%) CCNA
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) PCI DSS
2 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Varnish
1 2 (10.53%) Postfix
1 2 (10.53%) Samba
1 2 (10.53%) NFS
2 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Nagios
2 5 (26.32%) WhatsUp Gold
2 5 (26.32%) Cacti
2 5 (26.32%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (10.53%) Puppet
4 1 (5.263%) Tivoli
4 1 (5.263%) Netcool
4 1 (5.263%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (5.263%) Netcool/Proviso
4 1 (5.263%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Cisco
2 2 (10.53%) Nokia
2 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.263%) NetApp
3 1 (5.263%) HP
3 1 (5.263%) IBM
3 1 (5.263%) Microsoft
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